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Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.

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Gene Sharp

The degree of liberty or tyranny in any government is, it follows, in large degree a reflection of the relative determination of the subjects to be free and their willingness and ability to resist efforts to enslave them.

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By placing confidence in violent means, one has chosen the very type of struggle with which the oppressors nearly always have superiority.

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Dictatorships are never as strong as they think they are, and people are never as weak as they think they are.

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You have a chance of learning -- if you want to and youre not arrogant.

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Nonviolent action involves opposing the opponent's power, including his police & military capacity, not with the weapons chosen by him but by quite different means. . . Repression by the opponent is used against his own power position in a kind of political " ju-jitsu " and the very sources of his power thus reduced or removed, with the result that his political and military position is seriously weakened or destroyed.

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As soon as you choose to fight with violence you're choosing to fight against your opponents best weapons and you have to be smarter than that.

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